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All three browsers affected. Firefox, Internet explorer and Chrome......JEEZ!!!
Published on February 16, 2012 By Uvah In Personal Computing

     Yesterday it was an issue with Windows update. I thought it was solved. It started out with two of my browsers not loading correctly. Today however its something more serious. IE, Chrome and FF are all being redirected to the Comcast billing site. No matter what link I click on or site in my speed dial they all go to Comcast. I believe it started when I opened yahoo. There was an ad on the page for comcast that didn't fully load. When I clicked on mail it started. I ran all of my utilities thinking I caught a bug but neither of them found anything. I opened MalwareBytes to run that one and as usual it needed to update its virus definitions, no problem as I've done that many times before. This time though an error message came up saying that there are files missing or corrupt. So In uninstalled MalwareBytes hoping to go for a fresh install. No go.

     I used the system restore and took my laptop back to the 13th. thinking whatever is on it would be gone. Nope! Its still there and when I tried to open Windows update another error message saying it cannot access any updates. Windows update is not working, browsers are being redirected, uninstalling FF and rolling back to a previous version didn't work. Right now I can't use my laptop at all on the net. Is anyone else having this issue with browsers being redirected or is it a bug on my system. The only thing I can think of to do is use my rescue disk and pray it works. 


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on Feb 18, 2012

Actually I did have backups but they're suspect. Right now access to them will have until wait until Monday. I said this will be from scratch.

Well, if you backups are suspect, i don't advice your to access them ever... maybe there is some bad thing waiting for you in these backup... best to never use/open these backup and throw then in the garbage bin... once you computer is fully restored, with all windows update, drivers, software, make a new backup...

Don't come monday saying "i have access my old backup and problem are back"... well, i will enjoy to see a duck going postal...

People need a driving license for use a car... can be a good idea to make a worldwide computer driving license... something like the ECDL ( european computer driving license ) : http://www.ecdl.org/programmes/media/ECDL_ICDL_Syllabus_Version_51.pdf ... it is very basic but the limited knowledge will greatly reduce the "i need somebody help for fix my computer" 

on Feb 19, 2012

@yrag ..... I was kidding. I'm not downloading anything and I didn't. Unless of course it has something todo with SD. Many thanks for all your help.

@Thoumsin .... I'll pass on that one. One drivers license is enough thank you.

@Doc .... That last one was scary as shit. Without the recovery partition or the Pro version I'd be more than just up shit's creek. I need to put this thing back where it was. Interestingly enough the restore included another 30 day free trial of Norton. Guess who's gonna be the first to go.

Ya know ... when the regular backup failed I did a manual backup of My Documents, the Download folder, the Pictures folder and Users. All of them are on a separate partition on the external drive. So I really lost nothing. What I'm not going to do is bring all of that back to my C drive, there's about three gigs worth of stuff there. Plus all my graphics work, all the psd's are there too. I'll treat it like a repository.

on Feb 19, 2012

Ya know ... when the regular backup failed I did a manual backup of My Documents, the Download folder, the Pictures folder and Users. All of them are on a separate partition on the external drive. So I really lost nothing. What I'm not going to do is bring all of that back to my C drive, there's about three gigs worth of stuff there. Plus all my graphics work, all the psd's are there too. I'll treat it like a repository.

The only flaw in all that is that it's on the hdd in your computer. One of the reasons to have an untouched external backup is hdd failure. If your hdd fails, your backup is gone along with the rest of your hdd. Please have an external backup.

on Feb 19, 2012

All of them are on a separate partition on the external drive.

I don't put backups on my HDD. Doing that defeats the whole purpose of having them. Besides ... I have an 8 gig flash drive that I'm reconfiguring to hold at least one backup for those times when I can't access the external drive. I always have at least two backups, sometimes three.

on Feb 19, 2012

Here's the next thing you need...

It will save you a lot of hassle and protect us from having to read all this crap...

on Feb 19, 2012

You can fit a backup in an 8 GB flash drive?  My last Win 7 image was 108 GB.  

on Feb 19, 2012

No no no ...... the flash drive will be for copies of the graphics I'm working on. My external drive is for the partition image which I know is 'HUGE'!!!. Got a PM from yrag. He scares me but I will follow his advice. I can't afford to lose this one.

Oh ..... I hear you can install XP on a flash drive. Windows on a stick. Who'da thunk it.

on Feb 19, 2012

Suggestion: After reloading everything back on with the Recovery discs, and uninstalling all the crapware, run Windows updates.  Stop!

Make an image of that clean,"bare-bones"install. Save it somewhere,It won't take up much storage space and it will give you a fast reload of your OS , minus the bloat if when needed.

No need to ever use the Factory recovery CD's again.

I know it's too late for this step now, but it's something to keep in mind the next time.

on Feb 19, 2012

Got a PM from yrag. He scares me but I will follow his advice.

Be afraid....be very afraid.....

on Feb 19, 2012

@Wiz ...... I plan on it.

@RnD ...... I are. lol

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